Photos: Fireball Drops Meteorites On California

Monster Sunspot Triggers Big Solar Flares (Photos)

Giuseppe Petricca of Pisa, Italy, sent in this photo taken on May 11, 2012. He writes that he used "my Nikon P90 and a wielding glass in front of the lenses.…Read More »

[This photo] has been taken during the afternoon, when the sun hid temporarily behind a tree." [Full Photo Gallery] Less «

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Dark Shadows

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini spacecraft swung by Saturn’s moon Janus on March 27, 2012. Deep shadows darken some of the moon’s large craters. The spacecraft got this shot at…Read More »

a distance of approximately 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) from Janus. Intriguingly, another moon of Saturn, Epimetheus, orbits close to Janus, and the two moons periodically change orbits, so that one becomes closer to Saturn, while the other floats further away. [More Images] Less «

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Close Encounters of the AEHF-2 Kind

Credit: United Launch Alliance

Looking like a scene from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” dramatic backlight illuminates a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle at Space…Read More »

Launch Complex-41 of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket successfully launched the Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency 2 satellite (AEHF 2) satellite on May 4, 2012. [More Images] Less «